Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1887-01-27

A Wis asset waman gave ,hia>t.ns
TO saloon keeper who sold rum to her boy
the other DAY
A crank IN OlI'o~n ha, fixed a date for
The des,ruflon # the town hy combined
cyclone and earthquake.
Nathaniel ". P,Ae, vel. known Lin
coin county LAWYER, died suddenly the l.rh.
Hon. Mo,r. Webster. OF Vinalhaven,
Governor BodwelHs partner. i dead.
Charles Wclch. If Monmouth. who was
in the employ Of the Gardiner Tool com
pany and more recently night watch on the
canal at the X nckerbocker ice house, Farm
ingdale, suddenly missed By his COM
panion, SUNDAY night. the 10th. HIS horse
with which he vas at work keeping the
canal open was seen standing alone. Ne.ch
had fallen into the opening where the cur
rent carried him under the ice without cry
being heard. The bod, will pr batly never
be found. He was about 40 wears Of age
and leaves two children.
In the case Of the Barron estate IS.
Dexter Savings Bank, before HE supreme
judicial court January term. on application
Of counsel for the bank, Chief Justice Peters
ordered that auditors he appointed This
order was strenuou>Iy resisted BY counsel
for the state, and the question may vet 90
to the lAN cosrt for final adjudication.
Saturday evening, Jan. Is, Robert b.
Williams. Jr.. Of Roxbury. Mass, Jumped
from a Boston and Maine train at Well, and
sustained injuries from which he died half
an hour after He was on his way to Port
land.
The dry house of the sash and blind
factory Of Mathews Brothers on Front street.
Belfast. with contents was burned the 18th.
Loss 81 900; no insurance. The probable
cause was an oyerheated steam pipe.
The trial of Martha NJ Crockett for the
murder Of her husband, Rue! Crockett, by
poison administered in food. at Swanvlll+
last November, commenced before Judge
Virgin in the supreme court at Belfast
Wednesday. The alleged motive for the
crime is domestic difficulty and refusal IF
the deceased to allow his wife's son b, a
former marriage TO live in the family Al
tornev General OrviIe ID. Baker and County
and Colonel William II. FogIer the de-
PENDANT.
General Lucius Fairchild, Of Wisconsin,
commander in chief of the Grand Army has
gone to Troy. n. y, to visit number Of
intimate personal friends.
The subscription for the aid of Uncle
Scion Chase is making good progress It is
headed bv Jane, g. Blaine with $50. 4 good
~ purse made up al Augusta, Auburn and
Lewiston, and otter point. will respond well.
-Devereaux FenlAson, Of Wesley, vas
sentenced Saturday to twelve wears at hard
labor in State prison, Tor setting fire to a
barn With intent to burn Dwelling that was
burned and Clayton I. Plummer 10 three
years al hard labor for breaking and entering
and larceny.
Uncle Scion Chasts friends are anx-
ious to make up his benefit fund 10 5000, so
as to give him $1,000 to build new house
with Senator Hale ha, sent his check for
S2j.
Hon. B. X. Bruce delivered his ceie-
brated lecture on .'rhe Race Problem" in
Granite hall, Augusta, Thursday, before a
large audience. lie was introduced by Mr..
Blaine who occupied a seat on the platform.
The speaker is a colured gentl, man, large in
stature and OF commanding presence. He
spoke with much power and lis ettort was
instructive as vel a. eloquent. He traced
the progress Of the colored race in Ameri-
ca from the emancipation up to the present
time, showing the condition Of the peol lie
and abb, demonstrating that they were
abundan,ly fitted to possess the rights of cit
zenshp.